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Mustafa Akyol has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.
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Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters.…
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There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created…
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In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the…
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Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
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While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he…
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Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.
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For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that…
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What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of…
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Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and…
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It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.
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What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous…
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite…
— Hannah Arendt
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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention…
— Anita Brookner
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The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that…
— C.S. Lewis
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When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one…
— Saadi
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also…
— Thomas More
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I've had a lot of majors where I didn't play well until the last round. Keep yourself in contention; that's the name…
— Jack Nicklaus
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is…
— William H. Gass
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The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have…
— Robert de Castella
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Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Contention, especially violence, is not the way to deal with our problems. Unfortunately, television, videos, movies, and electronic games teach otherwise. Even…
— Unknown Author
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